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Gregory Nowacki, Michael Shephard, William Pawuk, Gary Fisher, James Baichtal, David Brew, Evert Kissinger and Terry Brock, USDA Forest Service ECOLOGICAL SUBSECTIONS OF GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK & PRESERVE, SITKA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK Mapping and Delineation by: Gregory Nowacki, Michael Shephard, William Pawuk, Gary Fisher, James Baichtal, David Brew, Evert Kissinger and Terry Brock, USDA Forest Service Photographs by: USDA Forest Service Alaska Region Inventory and Monitoring Program 2525 Gambell Anchorage, Alaska 99503 Alaska Region Inventory & Monitoring Program 2525 Gambell Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99503 (907) 257-2488 Fax (907) 264-5428 Ecological Subsections of Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Sitka National Historical Park 2001 Excerpts from Ecological Subsections of Southeast Alaska and Neighboring Areas of Canada Gregory Nowacki, Michael Shephard, William Pawuk, Gary Fisher, James Baichtal, David Brew, Evert Kissinger and Terry Brock USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region Technical Publication R10-TP-75 October 2001 Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ..............................................................................1 ECOLOGICAL SUBSECTION DELINEATION CRITERIA AND MAPPING..2 HIERARCHICAL ARRANGEMENT AND FINAL CORRECTION..................4 GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE ...................................1 Icefields...................................................................................................1 SAINT ELIAS—FAIRWEATHER .....................................................................1 Recently Deglaciated Areas .................................................................3 YAKUTAT—LITUYA FORELANDS ..................................................................3 UPPER WEST ARM MOUNTAINS...................................................................5 HUGH MILLER-GEIKIE INLET MOUNTAINS ...................................................7 DUNDAS RIVER FLATS ................................................................................9 BERG-BEARDSLEE MORAINE .....................................................................11 GUSTAVUS FLATS.....................................................................................13 WACHUSETT-ADAMS HILLS.......................................................................15 QUEEN-TIDAL INLET MOUNTAINS .............................................................17 Mainland Rivers .................................................................................19 ALSEK-TATSHENSHINI RIVER VALLEYS......................................................19 Angular Mountains.............................................................................21 FAIRWEATHER FRONT RANGE COMPLEX....................................................21 CAPE SPENCER COMPLEX..........................................................................23 CHILKAT PENINSULA CARBONATES ...........................................................25 DUNDAS BAY GRANITICS..........................................................................27 Rounded Mountains ...........................................................................29 BERG BAY COMPLEX .................................................................................29 POINT ADOLPHUS CARBONATES ...............................................................31 Hills ....................................................................................................33 SALMON RIVER SEDIMENTS......................................................................33 Lowlands ............................................................................................35 STEPHENS PASSAGE GLACIOMARINE TERRACES ........................................35 KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK ......................37 CHILKAT COMPLEX...................................................................................37 SITKA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK ..................................................39 SITKA SOUND COMPLEX ...........................................................................39 LITERATURE CITED...............................................................................41 1 Ecological Subsection Delineation Criteria and Mapping Along the rain-soaked West Coast, most ecosystem patterns and processes are ultimately traced to the land’s ability to shed and process water. Given the importance of hydrologic processes, we chose physiography, lithology, and surficial geology as the principal delineation criteria for defining subsections. The use of these delineators has precedence in temperate rain forest systems. Montgomery (1997) found topo-geologic factors as important determinants of coarse-scale ecological patterns and processes and proposed their use for defining West Coast ecosystems. These physical factors embody the complex interplay of tectonic, geomorphologic, and hydrologic processes which, in turn, govern the distribution of habitat types and natural disturbances in these landscapes (Montgomery 1997). These factors explain much of the coarse-scale variation we see in vegetation (composition, structure, and productivity), soils (genesis, morphology, carbon and nutrient cycling), hydrology (stream channel types, groundwater levels, sedimentation rates, nutrient levels, lake and wetland distribution), fish and wildlife habitat and productivity, glacial history and erosional processes (landform features, surficial deposits), and natural disturbance regimes (type, frequency, intensity). The region’s physiography represents a topographically complex terrain exposed to repeated glacial activity. Broad physiographic areas were delineated, including icefields, recently deglaciated areas, large mainland river systems, angular mountains, rounded mountains, hills, lowlands, and recent volcanic fields. These distinct physiographies reflect the geomorphic and glacial history of the land—how continental icesheets flowed, scoured, and deposited materials over the land, superimposed on changes wrought by tectonics and volcanism. Lithology and surficial deposits have profound effects on terrestrial and aquatic patterns and productivity in Southeast Alaska. Appreciable differences in water chemistry are associated with the type of bedrock from which they originate or contact (Wissmar et al. 1997). Substrate influences soil productivity to a lesser degree, with basalt and limestone having the most pronounced effects on soil chemistry (Heilman and Gass 1974). Seven generalized lithologies were delineated, including granitics, noncarbonate sedimentary, carbonate sedimentary, metasedimentary, complex sedimentary and volcanics, volcanics, and mafics/ultramafics. United States Geological Survey and U.S. Forest Service geologic maps were the sources of bedrock information (see Appendix A). We deferred to the 1:600,000 scale geology map of Gehrels and Berg (1992) where finer-scale information was not available. Many lithologic bodies (plutons, ultramafic intrusions) too small to distinguish at the subsection scale were grouped into larger adjacent rock bodies. Where surficial deposits of unconsolidated sediments effectively masked the underlying bedrock within lowlands, the type of deposition was identified as glacial till (ice-contact deposits), glacial outwash (glaciofluvial deposits), or glacial marine sediments (glaciomarine deposits). Applying these topo-geologic criteria, we delineated more than 160 polygons on 1:250,000 topographic maps. Collaborations with Dennis DeMarchi (British Columbia Ministry of 2 Environment, Lands, and Parks) and Scott Smith (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Research Branch) allowed delineation of polygons that extend into Canada. Each polygon was given a unique label and digitized in the Geographic Information System (GIS). Next, polygons possessing similar ecological characteristics were merged to form subsections. This process was aided by cluster analysis, a statistical procedure that groups or “clusters” items together based on their ecological similarity. For our exercise, polygons were populated with environmental data from the following GIS layers (note: these data were available only for lands within Tongass National Forest boundaries): 1. land cover type (alder, cedar, hemlock, poplar, hemlock-spruce, spruce, brush, freshwater, landslides, muskegs, alpine, ice-snow, or rock); 2. soil wetness (hydric or nonhydric); 3. forest site index (0-40, 41-60, 61-80, or >80); and 4. stream process groups (alluvial fan, estuarine, flood plain, glacial outwash, high gradient-contained, lake, palustrine, moderate gradient-contained, moderate gradient-mixed control, or low gradient-contained). These data layers were selected because of their GIS coverage (spanning the entire 17- million-acre Tongass National Forest) and relative independence from the delineation criteria. These environmental data were converted to percentages and subjected to cluster analysis (unweighted pair-grouping method). Using the analysis results and our group’s collective knowledge of climate, geomorphology, glacial history, soils, hydrology, and vegetation, we defined 85 subsections for Southeast Alaska and adjoining parts of Canada. Subsection names are concatenations of prominent local geographic features and the primary lithology (or the most ecologically significant bedrock type as in the case for carbonates) or surficial deposits occurring within each. 3 Hierarchical Arrangement and Final Correction A hierarchical classification for subsections was created to reflect developmental histories of terrestrial surfaces of Southeast Alaska
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